Our Mission
The CBEGWG is an organizational unit whose purpose is
1) to focus on issues pertinent to female affiliates of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2) to encourage young girls to enter engineering through outreach
News of the Month: November 2017
We are pleased to annouce that the WOMEN group is now soliciting applications for the Lisa Walker Travel Award, which funds travel for unique professional development opportunities that would not already be funded through your lab, such as visiting a collaborator's lab, attending a class to gain a new skill, or presenting at a specialty conference. For more information about the application, please contact sma243@cornell.edu.
In the News (Collapse)
June 12, 2017CBEWomen Recieves Women in Engineering Initiative Award for its WOMEN Event
May 10, 2017Qiuming Yu (Ph.D. '95, Clancy Group) was promoted to Research Full Professor (U. Washington)
May 3, 2017Zhu Cheng named 2017-18 Fleming Scholar
April 24, 2017Prof. Susan Daniel and Ph.D. candidate, Aravind Natarajan were featured speakers at the Ithaca March for Science
March 30, 2017Reseach led by Shuya Wei featured on the cover of Advanced Materials
March 1, 2017Rachel LeCover won a highly competitive parallel computing research internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory
February 13, 2017Congratulations to our CBE Graduate symposium winners: Zhu Cheng (industry/faculty choice for best talk), Siyu Zhu (best poster), and Michelle Sorkin (science as art photo competition)
January 26, 20176-Year-Old Girls Already Have Gendered Beliefs About Intelligence
January 5, 2017Poornima Padmanabhan selected for 2017 Cook Award
January 5, 2017Zia Group article featured as one of the "Most Read" in the 2016 Journal of Rheology
January 4, 2017CBE Professors Daniel, Delisa, Paszek, and Shuler receive the first Robert F. Smith Innovation Fund seed grant
January 3, 2017Choi and Clancy's work featured on cover of J. Mater. Chem. A
December 16, 2016Victoria Sorg and Akanksha Agrawal Awarded the R.F. Smith School of CBE's Highest Honor for Research Excellence
December 15, 2016Lydia Contreras (Ph.D. '08, DeLisa Group) was recently promoted to Associate Professor at UT- Austin
December 5, 2016Lin Ma, of the Archer Group, wins MRS Graduate Student Gold Award
November 11, 2016Julie Goddard (B.S. ChemE '99) joined Food Science faculty in July 2016 as an Associate Professor with tenure
November 1, 2016When women are more like men, they still face STEM bias
October 26, 2016Ann Lee, ChemE '83, delivers the D.I.C. Wang Award Lecture
October 25, 2016Paulette Clancy wins 2016 Advising Award
September 14, 2016Rachel LeCover, of the Varner Lab, was named in the top three poster presenters at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS)
August 29, 2016Daniel Lab lands an NSF grant to develop microbial fuel cells
August 15, 2016Roseanna Zia appointed to Advisory Board of Physics of Fluids
August 2, 2016Roseanna Zia featured in 2016 Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigators
June 20, 2016Shuya Wei of the Archer Group published her Na-S battery work in Nature Communications
June 8, 2016CBE Women received a generous gift of $25,000 from William A. Rudnick and Lisa L. Walker to support and foster the professional development of graduate women in chemical and biomolecular engineering
May 8, 2016Ghazal Shoorideh, our Vice President, named DPE's Graduate Student of the Year!
May 6, 2016Roseanna Zia studies has begun to shed light on the microscale world of colloidal gels
April 28, 2016Clancy Group Student wins Austin Hooey Graduate Research Excellence Recognition Award
April 27, 2016Roseanna Zia named Associate Editor for the Journal of Rheology
April 26, 2016ChemE Car advised by Professor Zia wins 4th Consecutive Northeast Title at AIChE
April 20, 2016The Daniel and Fischbach Labs are awarded seed grants to begin new collaboration on cancer research
April 14, 2016Daniel Group finds surface mutation lets canine parvovirus jump to other species
March 31, 2016Clancy group UG researcher, Jovana Andrejevic, wins NSF Grad Fellowship
March 8, 2016Prof. Daniel is one of two women faculty to receive the inaugural Schwartz awards
February 29, 2016Yingying Lu Ph.D. '14 has been added to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
December 14, 2015ChemE Senior Marisa Siergiej named Second-Team All-American
December 4, 2015Eugene Choi honored with Fall 2015 Hooey Graduate Research Award
December 4, 2015Student from the Clancy Group, Mardochee Reveil, is featured on Cornell's Research site
December 2, 2015Azotosome paper from Clancy group is one of the top ten most read articles in the Science Advances
December 2, 2015Cornell Undergraduate Ge Qu wins $5000 Shell Scholarship
November 17, 2015Assistant Professor Roseanna Zia wins distinguished teaching award
November 6, 2015Clancy undergraduate researchers one of only eight teams honored with a technical presentation at the SRC TECHCON meeting
October 22, 2015Chemical Engineering Undergrad Meghan Pierson writes about "The World of Scouting"
October 16, 2015McKenzie Hubert '16 has been awarded a 2015-16 Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship
October 15, 2015CBE undergrad, Kayla Kemler, with Steen research group garnered "top 10 poster" recognition at national meeting - TECHCON
October 8, 2015Lakshmi Nathan, of the Daniel Research Group, won a travel grant to attend the annual AIChE meeting in 2015
October 5, 2015Siergiej sisters engineer success on and off the field
September 9, 2015Katie Button '05 featured in Delta InFlight magazine
August 30, 2015Nikita Sengar and Blaire Sorenson receive travel grants for NSF-funded workshop in Germany
August 17, 2015CBEGWG paticipates in #ILookLikeAnEngineer
July 20, 2015Karen Havenstrite '05: Chemical entrepreneur is improving contact lens design
July 13, 2015Roseanna Zia selected as a Creative Young Engineer participating in NAE's 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
June 4, 2015Lakshmi Nathan (Daniel Group) wins NSF Fellowship
May 26, 2015Jovana Andrejevic of the Clancy group wins GlobalFoundries/SRCEA Undergraduate Research Scholarship
May 26, 2015Ph.D. students Morgan Baltz, Mengrou Shan, and Dana Thornlow are awarded with Fleming Fellowships
March 30, 2015Paulette Clancy and Julie Nucci win Cornell grant to Internationalize Curriculum
February 28, 2015Susan Daniel and Gary Whittaker are awarded a NSF grant to support fundamental Ebola research
February 11, 2015Susan Daniel wins an Alice H. and Constance E. Cook Award
October 21, 2014Faculty apprise alumni on solving global challenges
August 19, 2015Zia selected for National Academy of Engineering's 2014 FOEE Symposium
April 25, 2014Clancy group helps explain mobility breakthrough in fabricating large-area organic electronics
April 22, 2014Roseanna Zia wins ONR Young Investigator Award
April 7, 2014CBE Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
February 19, 2014Sung A Kim published a paper titled: "Hierarchical Structure in Semicrystalline Polymers Tethered to Nanospheres" in Macromolecules
February 6, 2014Susan Daniel promoted to the rank of Associate Professor
January 18, 2014Roseanna Zia is the recipient of 2014 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation
January 15, 2014Ashley Macner is the recipient of the 2013 Tom K. Scott award
August 13, 2013Roseanna Zia receives NSF BRIDGE Award
June 20, 2013Victoria Sorg Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
June 3, 2013Ashley Macner Invited to Capitol Hill
May 13, 2013Noreen Rizvi Awarded SWE Intel Corporation Graduate Scholarship
April 24, 2013Ashley Macner Wins 1st Place in Enabling Technologies Poster Competition
January 21, 2013Alyse Portnoff Wins Best Poster at Biomolecular Engineering Conference
December 6, 2012Roseanna Zia Named James C. and Rebecca Q. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
October 23, 2012Susan Daniel accepts the 2012 Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award
May 14, 2012Deirdre Costello awared General Motors Graduate Student of the Year
April 6, 2012CBEWomen's 3rd annual WOMEN Outreach Event is featured in The Cornell Daily Sun.
March 2, 2012Susan Daniel receives the NSF Career Award
February 4, 2012Girls Lead in Science Exam, but not in the United States.
April 14, 2011Congratulations to Eugene and Deirdre! Eugene and Deirdre received the Student Organization Award as President and Vice-President of the CBE Graduate Women's Group at the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association Banquet on April 14.
(Left to Right): Dean Lance Collins, Eugene Choi (VP), Deidre Costello (Pres.), and Bill Bruno (Pres., Cornell Engr. Alumni Assoc.)
December 6, 2010Two CBE Grad Women Win Austin Hooey Research Awards. Congratulations to Rebecca Cantrell and Jeisa Pelet for excellence in research!
Rebecca Cantrell, a fifth year MS/Ph.D. student working with Professor Clancy, works on simulations of the C60-Pentacene heterojunction interface for photovoltaic applications.
Jeisa Pelet, a fifth year MS/Ph.D. student working with Professor Putnam, works on combinatorial libraries of bi-functional polymeric vectors for siRNA delivery.
CBE Women Graduates Win NSF Fellowships. Congratulations to our NSF IGERT and NSF Graduate Fellowship winners!
Alexandra Cooper, a second year MS/Ph.D. student working with Professor Clancy, has won a very competitive three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Jennifer Nugent, MS/Ph.D., working with Professor Archer, has won an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship in Sustainable Materials.
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Women in Engineering Hosting Program (Fall)
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